Harriet E. H. Earle
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781496812469
- eISBN:
- 9781496812506
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496812469.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Comics Studies
Conflict is one of the most prevalent themes in comics, film and literature; we have been writing stories of war and violence since time immemorial. Comics is no stranger to such narratives and is ...
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Conflict is one of the most prevalent themes in comics, film and literature; we have been writing stories of war and violence since time immemorial. Comics is no stranger to such narratives and is writing them in ways that are different from (and complementary to) literature and film. This book brings together two distinct areas of research–trauma studies and comics–to provide a new interpretation of this long-standing central theme. Focusing on representations of conflict and war in post-Vietnam American comics, it claims that the comics form is able to mimic traumatic experience in order to represent the events as accurately and viscerally as possible. The textual focus spans the whole form, placing mainstream superhero comics alongside alternative and art comics. The specific comics fit a narrow set of criteria, all being published after 1975 by American creators, discussed in conversation with critical material from a wide range of thinkers, including Sigmund Freud, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Fredric Jameson, as well as contemporary trauma theory and clinical psychology. This book is structured around six key issues in conflict and traumatic representation, with close analyses of the chosen texts to consider the effectiveness of comics, both formally and thematically, in the areas of mourning, dreams, and personal identity. Comics, Trauma and the New Art of War also consider how timescales, temporality, and postmodernism affect, and are affected by, the dual focus of comics and trauma.Less
Conflict is one of the most prevalent themes in comics, film and literature; we have been writing stories of war and violence since time immemorial. Comics is no stranger to such narratives and is writing them in ways that are different from (and complementary to) literature and film. This book brings together two distinct areas of research–trauma studies and comics–to provide a new interpretation of this long-standing central theme. Focusing on representations of conflict and war in post-Vietnam American comics, it claims that the comics form is able to mimic traumatic experience in order to represent the events as accurately and viscerally as possible. The textual focus spans the whole form, placing mainstream superhero comics alongside alternative and art comics. The specific comics fit a narrow set of criteria, all being published after 1975 by American creators, discussed in conversation with critical material from a wide range of thinkers, including Sigmund Freud, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Fredric Jameson, as well as contemporary trauma theory and clinical psychology. This book is structured around six key issues in conflict and traumatic representation, with close analyses of the chosen texts to consider the effectiveness of comics, both formally and thematically, in the areas of mourning, dreams, and personal identity. Comics, Trauma and the New Art of War also consider how timescales, temporality, and postmodernism affect, and are affected by, the dual focus of comics and trauma.
Tom Shippey
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781781382615
- eISBN:
- 9781786945167
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781781382615.003.0029
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter discusses the ways in which anxiety over future war, or trauma over past wars, are reflected in science fiction, from Victorian works inspired by the Franco-Prussian War to works ...
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This chapter discusses the ways in which anxiety over future war, or trauma over past wars, are reflected in science fiction, from Victorian works inspired by the Franco-Prussian War to works coloured by the conflicts in Korea and Vietnam. A central work in the progression is Heinlein’s Starship Troopers, whose ideas and attitudes were nevertheless openly mocked, or more sympathetically put aside, by veteran authors such as Harry Harrison and Joe Haldeman. The subtlety of commentary within the science fiction community is contrasted with the dumbing-down betrayed by the Starship Troopers movies. Once again, science fiction has shown an intellectual ambition well beyond other forms of mass media, and has proved itself, as this book consistently argues, too hard for some: critics, reviewers, film directors. It deserves greater respect.Less
This chapter discusses the ways in which anxiety over future war, or trauma over past wars, are reflected in science fiction, from Victorian works inspired by the Franco-Prussian War to works coloured by the conflicts in Korea and Vietnam. A central work in the progression is Heinlein’s Starship Troopers, whose ideas and attitudes were nevertheless openly mocked, or more sympathetically put aside, by veteran authors such as Harry Harrison and Joe Haldeman. The subtlety of commentary within the science fiction community is contrasted with the dumbing-down betrayed by the Starship Troopers movies. Once again, science fiction has shown an intellectual ambition well beyond other forms of mass media, and has proved itself, as this book consistently argues, too hard for some: critics, reviewers, film directors. It deserves greater respect.
Carol Jacobs
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780231171823
- eISBN:
- 9780231540100
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231171823.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
W. G. Sebald’s writing has been widely recognized for its intense, nuanced engagement with the Holocaust, the Allied bombing of Germany in WWII, and other episodes of violence throughout history. ...
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W. G. Sebald’s writing has been widely recognized for its intense, nuanced engagement with the Holocaust, the Allied bombing of Germany in WWII, and other episodes of violence throughout history. Through his inventive use of narrative form and juxtaposition of image and text, Sebald’s work has offered readers new ways to think about remembering and representing trauma. In Sebald’s Vision, Carol Jacobs examines the author's prose, novels, and poems, illuminating the ethical and aesthetic questions that shaped his remarkable oeuvre. Through the trope of “vision”, Jacobs explores aspects of Sebald’s writing and the way the author’s indirect depiction of events highlights the ethical imperative of representing history while at the same time calling into question the possibility of such representation. Jacobs’s lucid readings of Sebald’s work also consider his famous juxtaposition of images and use of citations to explain his interest in the vagaries of perception. Isolating different ideas of vision in some of his most noted works, including Rings of Saturn, Austerlitz, and After Nature, as well as in Sebald’s interviews, poetry, art criticism, and his lecture Air War and Literature, Jacobs introduces new perspectives for understanding the distinctiveness of Sebald’s work and its profound moral implications.Less
W. G. Sebald’s writing has been widely recognized for its intense, nuanced engagement with the Holocaust, the Allied bombing of Germany in WWII, and other episodes of violence throughout history. Through his inventive use of narrative form and juxtaposition of image and text, Sebald’s work has offered readers new ways to think about remembering and representing trauma. In Sebald’s Vision, Carol Jacobs examines the author's prose, novels, and poems, illuminating the ethical and aesthetic questions that shaped his remarkable oeuvre. Through the trope of “vision”, Jacobs explores aspects of Sebald’s writing and the way the author’s indirect depiction of events highlights the ethical imperative of representing history while at the same time calling into question the possibility of such representation. Jacobs’s lucid readings of Sebald’s work also consider his famous juxtaposition of images and use of citations to explain his interest in the vagaries of perception. Isolating different ideas of vision in some of his most noted works, including Rings of Saturn, Austerlitz, and After Nature, as well as in Sebald’s interviews, poetry, art criticism, and his lecture Air War and Literature, Jacobs introduces new perspectives for understanding the distinctiveness of Sebald’s work and its profound moral implications.
Wendy Haight, Teresa Ostler, James Black, and Linda Kingery
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195326055
- eISBN:
- 9780199864461
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195326055.003.0008
- Subject:
- Social Work, Children and Families, Communities and Organizations
This chapter describes the psychological functioning of school-aged children in foster care because of parental methamphetamine misuse. In semi-structured interviews, children described emotional ...
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This chapter describes the psychological functioning of school-aged children in foster care because of parental methamphetamine misuse. In semi-structured interviews, children described emotional pain, few social resources for coping with emotions, problem-solving, or talking about their experiences; and avoidant or passive coping skills. Results from the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL, Achenbach & Rescorla, 2001) and Trauma Symptom Checklist for Children (TSCC, Briere, 1996) revealed individual variation in psychological functioning, but most children displayed significant dissociative or post-traumatic symptoms, as well as other significant emotional and behavioral problems. The high rate of mental health problems suggests the need for non-traditional strategies for service delivery in rural areas targeted toward these vulnerable children. Early identification and treatment of mental health problems should be a priority.Less
This chapter describes the psychological functioning of school-aged children in foster care because of parental methamphetamine misuse. In semi-structured interviews, children described emotional pain, few social resources for coping with emotions, problem-solving, or talking about their experiences; and avoidant or passive coping skills. Results from the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL, Achenbach & Rescorla, 2001) and Trauma Symptom Checklist for Children (TSCC, Briere, 1996) revealed individual variation in psychological functioning, but most children displayed significant dissociative or post-traumatic symptoms, as well as other significant emotional and behavioral problems. The high rate of mental health problems suggests the need for non-traditional strategies for service delivery in rural areas targeted toward these vulnerable children. Early identification and treatment of mental health problems should be a priority.
Betsy McAlister Groves, Patricia Van Horn, and Alicia F. Lieberman
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195309034
- eISBN:
- 9780199863877
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195309034.003.0004
- Subject:
- Social Work, Children and Families, Crime and Justice
This chapter focuses on the experience of two programs that offer psychotherapeutic interventions to children exposed to domestic violence: the Child Witness to Violence Project (CWVP) at the Boston ...
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This chapter focuses on the experience of two programs that offer psychotherapeutic interventions to children exposed to domestic violence: the Child Witness to Violence Project (CWVP) at the Boston Medical Center and the Child Trauma Research Project (CTRP) at San Francisco General Hospital. It reviews the experience of considering whether and how to include violent fathers in the healing of their children. It then discusses issues that such inclusion raise for practitioners and policymakers.Less
This chapter focuses on the experience of two programs that offer psychotherapeutic interventions to children exposed to domestic violence: the Child Witness to Violence Project (CWVP) at the Boston Medical Center and the Child Trauma Research Project (CTRP) at San Francisco General Hospital. It reviews the experience of considering whether and how to include violent fathers in the healing of their children. It then discusses issues that such inclusion raise for practitioners and policymakers.
Brigitte Weltman-Aron
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780231172561
- eISBN:
- 9780231539876
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231172561.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
Djebar considers how to testify about women's participation in the war of independence, by promoting a verbal exchange that deemphasizes the visual within the testimonial act between the survivor who ...
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Djebar considers how to testify about women's participation in the war of independence, by promoting a verbal exchange that deemphasizes the visual within the testimonial act between the survivor who speaks and the listener. This chapter also examines her use of a Roman mosaic as an allegory of the ways in which women's resistance should be historicized.Less
Djebar considers how to testify about women's participation in the war of independence, by promoting a verbal exchange that deemphasizes the visual within the testimonial act between the survivor who speaks and the listener. This chapter also examines her use of a Roman mosaic as an allegory of the ways in which women's resistance should be historicized.
Celeste-Marie Bernier, Alan Rice, Lubaina Himid, and Hannah Durkin
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781789620856
- eISBN:
- 9781789629903
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781789620856.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
In this section of the book, Himid discusses Cut-Out Men (1981–85), A Fashionable Marriage (1987), Freedom and Change (1984) and We Will Be (1983).
In this section of the book, Himid discusses Cut-Out Men (1981–85), A Fashionable Marriage (1987), Freedom and Change (1984) and We Will Be (1983).
Celeste-Marie Bernier, Alan Rice, Lubaina Himid, and Hannah Durkin
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781789620856
- eISBN:
- 9781789629903
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781789620856.003.0009
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
Naming the Money (Figures 56–58) is probably the most important work I’ve ever made, but for more personal reasons than its scale and reach. The period through which the work took place was one of ...
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Naming the Money (Figures 56–58) is probably the most important work I’ve ever made, but for more personal reasons than its scale and reach. The period through which the work took place was one of reflection and development, and perhaps if I’m honest it was a moment at which I thought it would be the last installation I’d ever undertake. By the time it had been shown at the Hatton Gallery at Newcastle University I was approaching 50 and had spent the previous five years trying to build on the opportunity of the Tate St Ives residency and show; it was very different work but seemed none the less to be the culmination of a massive output which included shows such as ...Less
Naming the Money (Figures 56–58) is probably the most important work I’ve ever made, but for more personal reasons than its scale and reach. The period through which the work took place was one of reflection and development, and perhaps if I’m honest it was a moment at which I thought it would be the last installation I’d ever undertake. By the time it had been shown at the Hatton Gallery at Newcastle University I was approaching 50 and had spent the previous five years trying to build on the opportunity of the Tate St Ives residency and show; it was very different work but seemed none the less to be the culmination of a massive output which included shows such as ...
Celeste-Marie Bernier, Alan Rice, Lubaina Himid, and Hannah Durkin
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781789620856
- eISBN:
- 9781789629903
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781789620856.003.0018
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
In this section of the book, Himid discusses Scenes from the Life of Toussaint L’Ouverture I (1987) and Scenes from the Life of Toussaint L’Ouverture II (2002)
In this section of the book, Himid discusses Scenes from the Life of Toussaint L’Ouverture I (1987) and Scenes from the Life of Toussaint L’Ouverture II (2002)
Celeste-Marie Bernier, Alan Rice, Lubaina Himid, and Hannah Durkin
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781789620856
- eISBN:
- 9781789629903
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781789620856.003.0020
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
The book concludes with a summary of the activism that underpins Himid’s artistic practice.
The book concludes with a summary of the activism that underpins Himid’s artistic practice.
Celeste-Marie Bernier, Alan Rice, Lubaina Himid, and Hannah Durkin
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781789620856
- eISBN:
- 9781789629903
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781789620856.003.0021
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
In this section of the book, Himid discusses Plan B (1999), Inside the Invisible (2001) and Zanzibar (1999).
In this section of the book, Himid discusses Plan B (1999), Inside the Invisible (2001) and Zanzibar (1999).
Jing Meng
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- May 2021
- ISBN:
- 9789888528462
- eISBN:
- 9789888053490
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888528462.001.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This book explores the way personal memories and micro-narratives of the Cultural Revolution are represented in post-2001 films and television dramas in mainland China, unravelling the complex ...
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This book explores the way personal memories and micro-narratives of the Cultural Revolution are represented in post-2001 films and television dramas in mainland China, unravelling the complex political, social and cultural forces imbricated within the personalized narrative modes of remembering the past in postsocialist China. While representations of personal stories mushroomed after the Culture Revolution, the deepened marketization and privatization after 2001 have triggered a new wave of representations of personal memories on screen, which divert from those earlier allegorical narratives and are more sentimental, fragmented and nostalgic. The personalized reminiscences of the past suggest an alternative narrative to official history and grand narratives, and at the same time, by promoting the sentiment of nostalgia, they also become a marketing strategy. Rather than perceiving the rising micro-narratives as either homogeneous or autonomous, this book argues that they often embody disparate qualities and potentials. Moreover, the various micro-narratives and personal memories at play facilitate fresh understandings of China’s socialist past and postsocialist present: the legacies of socialism continue to influence China, constituting the postsocialist reality that accommodates different ideologies and temporalities.Less
This book explores the way personal memories and micro-narratives of the Cultural Revolution are represented in post-2001 films and television dramas in mainland China, unravelling the complex political, social and cultural forces imbricated within the personalized narrative modes of remembering the past in postsocialist China. While representations of personal stories mushroomed after the Culture Revolution, the deepened marketization and privatization after 2001 have triggered a new wave of representations of personal memories on screen, which divert from those earlier allegorical narratives and are more sentimental, fragmented and nostalgic. The personalized reminiscences of the past suggest an alternative narrative to official history and grand narratives, and at the same time, by promoting the sentiment of nostalgia, they also become a marketing strategy. Rather than perceiving the rising micro-narratives as either homogeneous or autonomous, this book argues that they often embody disparate qualities and potentials. Moreover, the various micro-narratives and personal memories at play facilitate fresh understandings of China’s socialist past and postsocialist present: the legacies of socialism continue to influence China, constituting the postsocialist reality that accommodates different ideologies and temporalities.
Trevor J. Blank and Andrea Kitta (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781496804259
- eISBN:
- 9781496804297
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496804259.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Mythology and Folklore
Diagnosing Folklore aspires to provide an inclusive forum for an expansive conversation on the sensitive, raw, and powerful processes that shape and imbue meaning in the lives of individuals and ...
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Diagnosing Folklore aspires to provide an inclusive forum for an expansive conversation on the sensitive, raw, and powerful processes that shape and imbue meaning in the lives of individuals and communities beleaguered by stigmatization, conflicting public perceptions, and contextual constraints. This volume aims to showcase current ideas and debates, as well as promote the larger study of disability, health, and trauma within folkloristics, and helping bridge the gaps between the folklore discipline and disability studies.Less
Diagnosing Folklore aspires to provide an inclusive forum for an expansive conversation on the sensitive, raw, and powerful processes that shape and imbue meaning in the lives of individuals and communities beleaguered by stigmatization, conflicting public perceptions, and contextual constraints. This volume aims to showcase current ideas and debates, as well as promote the larger study of disability, health, and trauma within folkloristics, and helping bridge the gaps between the folklore discipline and disability studies.
Eric Boynton and Peter Capretto (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780823280261
- eISBN:
- 9780823281602
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823280261.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Philosophy of Religion
Within the humanities, specifically in the past decade, trauma theory has become a robust site of interdisciplinary work. Trauma resonates with scholars in and across disciplines and has become a ...
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Within the humanities, specifically in the past decade, trauma theory has become a robust site of interdisciplinary work. Trauma resonates with scholars in and across disciplines and has become a trope with a distinctive significance. The scope of scholarship on trauma has always been challenged by the temporal, affective, and corporeal dimensions of trauma itself, yet it has recently been rendered all the more complex by theoretical and methodological issues that have emerged for these disciplines in their attempts to think trauma. This volume gathers scholars in a variety of disciplines to meet the challenge of how to think trauma in light of its burgeoning interdisciplinarity, and often its theoretical splintering. From distinctive disciplinary vectors, the work of philosophers, social theorists, philosophical psychologists and theologians consider the limits and prospects of theory when thinking trauma and transcendence. By bringing together scholars at the intersections of trauma, social theory, and especially the continental philosophy of religion, this volume draws attention to the increasing challenge of deciding whether trauma’s transcendent, evental, or unassimilable quality is being wielded as a defense of traumatic experience against reductionism, or whether it is promulgated as a form of obscurantism.Less
Within the humanities, specifically in the past decade, trauma theory has become a robust site of interdisciplinary work. Trauma resonates with scholars in and across disciplines and has become a trope with a distinctive significance. The scope of scholarship on trauma has always been challenged by the temporal, affective, and corporeal dimensions of trauma itself, yet it has recently been rendered all the more complex by theoretical and methodological issues that have emerged for these disciplines in their attempts to think trauma. This volume gathers scholars in a variety of disciplines to meet the challenge of how to think trauma in light of its burgeoning interdisciplinarity, and often its theoretical splintering. From distinctive disciplinary vectors, the work of philosophers, social theorists, philosophical psychologists and theologians consider the limits and prospects of theory when thinking trauma and transcendence. By bringing together scholars at the intersections of trauma, social theory, and especially the continental philosophy of religion, this volume draws attention to the increasing challenge of deciding whether trauma’s transcendent, evental, or unassimilable quality is being wielded as a defense of traumatic experience against reductionism, or whether it is promulgated as a form of obscurantism.
David Bolton
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780719090998
- eISBN:
- 9781526128546
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719090998.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
What are the human consequences of war, conflict and terrorism, and what are the appropriate policy and service responses? This book seeks to provide some answers to these important questions, ...
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What are the human consequences of war, conflict and terrorism, and what are the appropriate policy and service responses? This book seeks to provide some answers to these important questions, drawing upon over 25 years’ work by the author in Northern Ireland and elsewhere. Focusing on the work undertaken following the Omagh bombing in 1998, the book describes how needs were assessed and understood, how evidence-based therapy services were put in place and the training and education programmes that were developed to assist first those communities affected by the Omagh bombing - and later the wider population affected by the years of conflict. The author places the mental health needs of conflict-affected victims and communities at the heart of the political and peace processes that follow when conflicts end. This is a practical book and will be of particular interest to those planning for and responding to conflict-related disasters and terrorism, policy makers, service commissioners and providers, politicians, diplomats, civil servants, leaders of religion, peace builders and peace makers. It also includes an extensive overview of the efforts to understand the mental health impact of the years of violence in Northern Ireland, reviewing for example, the impacts of loss and PTSD, why it seemed to take so long to recognise the impact, and the challenges of undertaking research in a community that is in violent conflict.Less
What are the human consequences of war, conflict and terrorism, and what are the appropriate policy and service responses? This book seeks to provide some answers to these important questions, drawing upon over 25 years’ work by the author in Northern Ireland and elsewhere. Focusing on the work undertaken following the Omagh bombing in 1998, the book describes how needs were assessed and understood, how evidence-based therapy services were put in place and the training and education programmes that were developed to assist first those communities affected by the Omagh bombing - and later the wider population affected by the years of conflict. The author places the mental health needs of conflict-affected victims and communities at the heart of the political and peace processes that follow when conflicts end. This is a practical book and will be of particular interest to those planning for and responding to conflict-related disasters and terrorism, policy makers, service commissioners and providers, politicians, diplomats, civil servants, leaders of religion, peace builders and peace makers. It also includes an extensive overview of the efforts to understand the mental health impact of the years of violence in Northern Ireland, reviewing for example, the impacts of loss and PTSD, why it seemed to take so long to recognise the impact, and the challenges of undertaking research in a community that is in violent conflict.
Jeff Daniel Silva
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780719085055
- eISBN:
- 9781526109958
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719085055.003.0014
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
Balkan Rhapsodies: 78 Short Films is a project that began in 1999, when Silva made a trip to Serbia and Kosovo just a few weeks after the NATO bombings. Out of this experience he developed an ...
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Balkan Rhapsodies: 78 Short Films is a project that began in 1999, when Silva made a trip to Serbia and Kosovo just a few weeks after the NATO bombings. Out of this experience he developed an episodic, personal film that arranges a variety of material, from intimate testimonials to observational footage and appropriated and manipulated images. This ‘free form’ documentary uses an ‘aesthetic of ambiguity’ to reflect on the traumas and absurdities of the past while trying to avoid trivialization or becoming a polemic.Less
Balkan Rhapsodies: 78 Short Films is a project that began in 1999, when Silva made a trip to Serbia and Kosovo just a few weeks after the NATO bombings. Out of this experience he developed an episodic, personal film that arranges a variety of material, from intimate testimonials to observational footage and appropriated and manipulated images. This ‘free form’ documentary uses an ‘aesthetic of ambiguity’ to reflect on the traumas and absurdities of the past while trying to avoid trivialization or becoming a polemic.
Kate Schick
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780748639847
- eISBN:
- 9780748676675
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748639847.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
Gillian Rose draws on idiosyncratic readings of thinkers such as Hegel, Adorno and Kierkegaard to underpin her philosophy, negotiating the ‘broken middle’ between particular and universal. While of ...
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Gillian Rose draws on idiosyncratic readings of thinkers such as Hegel, Adorno and Kierkegaard to underpin her philosophy, negotiating the ‘broken middle’ between particular and universal. While of the left, she is sharply critical of much left-wing thought, insisting that it shirks the work of coming to know and of taking political risk in pursuit of a ‘good enough justice’.In this book Kate Schick presents the core themes of Rose's work and locates her ideas within central debates in contemporary social theory (trauma, memory and mourning; exclusion and difference; tragedy and messianic utopia), engaging with the works of Benjamin, Honig, Žižek and Butler. She shows how Rose's speculative perspective brings a different gaze to bear on debates, eschewing well-worn liberal, critical theoretic and post-structural positions. Her difficult project advocates a rehabilitation of reason and critique with Hegelian recognition at its core.Less
Gillian Rose draws on idiosyncratic readings of thinkers such as Hegel, Adorno and Kierkegaard to underpin her philosophy, negotiating the ‘broken middle’ between particular and universal. While of the left, she is sharply critical of much left-wing thought, insisting that it shirks the work of coming to know and of taking political risk in pursuit of a ‘good enough justice’.In this book Kate Schick presents the core themes of Rose's work and locates her ideas within central debates in contemporary social theory (trauma, memory and mourning; exclusion and difference; tragedy and messianic utopia), engaging with the works of Benjamin, Honig, Žižek and Butler. She shows how Rose's speculative perspective brings a different gaze to bear on debates, eschewing well-worn liberal, critical theoretic and post-structural positions. Her difficult project advocates a rehabilitation of reason and critique with Hegelian recognition at its core.
Miles Leeson (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781526122162
- eISBN:
- 9781526138767
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9781526122162.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This is the first edited collection of essays which focuses on the incest taboo and its literary and cultural presentation from the 1950s to the present day; it considers a number of authors rather ...
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This is the first edited collection of essays which focuses on the incest taboo and its literary and cultural presentation from the 1950s to the present day; it considers a number of authors rather than a single author from this period. This study discusses the impact of this change in attitudes on literature and literary adaptations in the latter half of the twentieth century, and early years of the twenty-first century. Although primarily concerned with fiction, the collection includes work on television and film. This collection will enhance the growing academic interest in trauma narratives and taboo-literature, offering a useful contribution to a fast-evolving field of artistic criticism which is concerned with the relationship between social issues and creativity. Authors discussed include Iain Banks, A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Simone de Beauvoir, Ted Hughes, Doris Lessing, Ian McEwan Iris Murdoch, Vladimir Nabokov, Andrea Newman and Pier Pasolini and Sylvia Plath.Less
This is the first edited collection of essays which focuses on the incest taboo and its literary and cultural presentation from the 1950s to the present day; it considers a number of authors rather than a single author from this period. This study discusses the impact of this change in attitudes on literature and literary adaptations in the latter half of the twentieth century, and early years of the twenty-first century. Although primarily concerned with fiction, the collection includes work on television and film. This collection will enhance the growing academic interest in trauma narratives and taboo-literature, offering a useful contribution to a fast-evolving field of artistic criticism which is concerned with the relationship between social issues and creativity. Authors discussed include Iain Banks, A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Simone de Beauvoir, Ted Hughes, Doris Lessing, Ian McEwan Iris Murdoch, Vladimir Nabokov, Andrea Newman and Pier Pasolini and Sylvia Plath.
Ewa Mazierska, Matilda Mroz, and Elzbieta Ostrowska (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781474405140
- eISBN:
- 9781474426718
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474405140.001.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This edited collection is the first book to draw together a range of theoretical and critical approaches relating to the filmed human bodies of Eastern European and Russian cinema. While much ...
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This edited collection is the first book to draw together a range of theoretical and critical approaches relating to the filmed human bodies of Eastern European and Russian cinema. While much research has been conducted within film studies into the representation of the body in Western European (and ‘world’) cinemas, much less attention has been paid to the bodies and sensations of Eastern European film. The collection examines representations of the body in Eastern European and Russian cinema (including the cinema of Poland, Hungary, former Czechoslovakia, and former Yugoslavia) after the Second World War, drawing on the history of the region and Western and Eastern scholarship on the body. It focuses on three areas: the traumatized body, the body as a site of erotic pleasure and the relationship between the body and history. It demonstrates how bodily discourses, oscillating between complicity and subversion, shaped individuals and societies during the period of state socialism and after its fall. A critical dissection of the ways in which human bodies are framed, ideologically and aesthetically, the ways in which they may transgress this frame, and their contact with the human bodies of the audience, is, the book argues, of invaluable significance in extending our understanding of Eastern European visual culture.Less
This edited collection is the first book to draw together a range of theoretical and critical approaches relating to the filmed human bodies of Eastern European and Russian cinema. While much research has been conducted within film studies into the representation of the body in Western European (and ‘world’) cinemas, much less attention has been paid to the bodies and sensations of Eastern European film. The collection examines representations of the body in Eastern European and Russian cinema (including the cinema of Poland, Hungary, former Czechoslovakia, and former Yugoslavia) after the Second World War, drawing on the history of the region and Western and Eastern scholarship on the body. It focuses on three areas: the traumatized body, the body as a site of erotic pleasure and the relationship between the body and history. It demonstrates how bodily discourses, oscillating between complicity and subversion, shaped individuals and societies during the period of state socialism and after its fall. A critical dissection of the ways in which human bodies are framed, ideologically and aesthetically, the ways in which they may transgress this frame, and their contact with the human bodies of the audience, is, the book argues, of invaluable significance in extending our understanding of Eastern European visual culture.
David Seed, Stephen C. Kenny, and Chris Williams (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781781382509
- eISBN:
- 9781786945297
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781781382509.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Military History
This volume assembles selections from writings on the American Civil War in fiction, first-hand accounts and contemporary reportage, all supplemented with photographs. The focus falls on the injuries ...
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This volume assembles selections from writings on the American Civil War in fiction, first-hand accounts and contemporary reportage, all supplemented with photographs. The focus falls on the injuries sustained by participants and on their medical treatment. Writers and poets are included who drew on their experiences as nurses, combatants or observers. The volume focuses thematically on nursing, medical facilities, photography, amputations, battlefield accounts, and the war’s aftermath. The excerpts are supplemented by critical studies by specialists in the different aspects of the Civil War. Each excerpt is introduced by brief editorial commentaries, guiding the reader towards further related material and an overall introduction to the volume addresses the blurring between private and public documents as well as the different methods of recording these events.Less
This volume assembles selections from writings on the American Civil War in fiction, first-hand accounts and contemporary reportage, all supplemented with photographs. The focus falls on the injuries sustained by participants and on their medical treatment. Writers and poets are included who drew on their experiences as nurses, combatants or observers. The volume focuses thematically on nursing, medical facilities, photography, amputations, battlefield accounts, and the war’s aftermath. The excerpts are supplemented by critical studies by specialists in the different aspects of the Civil War. Each excerpt is introduced by brief editorial commentaries, guiding the reader towards further related material and an overall introduction to the volume addresses the blurring between private and public documents as well as the different methods of recording these events.
